A good explanation of "what is sRGB?" :
http://mysite.verizon.net/spitzak/conversion/srgb.html
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On 8/26/2010 6:28 AM, Gene Dreitser wrote:
> Not to add to the confusion -- I'm still grokking this myself, I thought I would
> point this out just in case it was relevant to somone:
>> While 'most of the time' people equate the sRGB to linear color space transform
> with a application of a 0.45 gamma colour correction (and the inverse operation,
> by applying a gamma 2.2 colour correction), this is infact, an approximation.
>> The ACTUAL colour transformation is slightly more complex, and involves a LUT.
> you can confirm this yourself in Nuke rather easily. There is a portion in the
> black that will get obliterated if you apply a 0.45 gamma, that won't be using a
> proper lut. subtle, but present.
>> Best,
>> G
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>>>> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Rangi Sutton<rangi.sutton at gmail.com>
> To: sidefx-houdini-list at sidefx.com; andy at andynicholas.com> Sent: Thu, August 26, 2010 9:06:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sidefx-houdini-list] Linear Workflow
>> On 26 August 2010 20:13, Andy Nicholas<andy at andynicholas.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Rangi,
>>>> Following the link to Wikipedia, the first line reads:
>>>> "Gamma correction, gamma nonlinearity, gamma encoding, or often simply
>> gamma, "
>>>> Kapow!
>>>> That's exactly the problem. People often talk about correcting for gamma.
>> So does this mean what they're actually saying is that they're correcting
>> for gamma correction? I guess that'd be called gamma correction correction
>> ;-)
>>> Fair enough. It's all confusing as hell. I'll try and spell it out
> randomly...
>> As far as I understand it... Your display is constantly darkening
> everything. Most images we deal with are sRGB, they have actually got
> brighter values.. so when they're displayed, everything turns out equal.
>> (ie.. a grey value of 0.5 in sRGB, should be displayed as 20% grey. There's
> a stack more information in the lower-luma ranges than the higher luma
> ranges.)
>> Of course.. terms like brighten and darken are simplifications.. you know
> what I mean.. mid grey goes up == brighten, mid-grey goes down == darken ;)
>> Type "xgamma -gamma 2.2" to see you monitors in linear space. Your display
> is now neutral, with a gamma of 1.0 (assuming it was "normally" calibrated
> to begin with!) Everything looks too bright, your interface is washy, it
> wasn't designed in linear space.
>> If you open a jpg now it will look washed out (it's in sRGB space, and your
> display is now linear). Open a linear render and it will look true, although
> you might need to adapt what you think is true!
>> Apply a gamma of 0.45 to your jpg with a gamma cop or something, and you've
> converted it from sRGB to linear (pretty much). The image is darker now..
> looks correct.
>> So when a monitor is said to have a gamma of 2.2.. it means that 1/2.2 gets
> applied to everything. You should "gamma correct" a linear image to your
> viewing device by applying a gamma of 2.2 to it.
>> Take a linear image, apply gamma 2.2, display on a monitor with gamma 2.2..
> it will look right.
>> Take a photograph, your camera inherently applies a gamma of 2.2, display it
> on your "normal" monitor (has a gamma of 2.2), it will look right.
>> Have I contradicted myself? Someone correct me because in Southern
> hemisphere we might have upside down denominators... and I usually just
> flip shit around until it looks right.
>> Nuke is a good one for this stuff.. allows you to specify what colour space
> images are in on the way in (rather than assume by image type, which I think
> cops does).. and allows you to simply control the viewer space. Nuke likes
> to work linear internally, as far as I understand it.... which is how stuff
> should be composited!
>> I'm going to hit send then realise I said it all backwards....
>> r.
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